Plyushkin
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thumb|Plyushkin, drawing by Alexander Agin (1846-1847) Stepan Plyushkin () is a fictional character in Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls. He is a landowner who obsessively collects and saves everything he finds, to the point that when he wants to celebrate a deal with the protagonist Chichikov, he orders one of his serfs to find a cake that a visitor brought several years ago, scrape off the mold, and bring it to them. At the same time, his estate is incredibly inefficient; the cut wheat rots on the ground and any potential income is lost.
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thumb|Plyushkin, drawing by Alexander Agin (1846-1847) Stepan Plyushkin () is a fictional character in Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls. He is a landowner who obsessively collects and saves everything he finds, to the point that when he wants to celebrate a deal with the protagonist Chichikov, he orders one of his serfs to find a cake that a visitor brought several years ago, scrape off the mold, and bring it to them. At the same time, his estate is incredibly inefficient; the cut wheat rots on the ground and any potential income is lost.
His surname is derived from the Russian word for flat bun pastry ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Plyushkin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.